Nigel Cunningham wrote:
Hi.
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 16:11, Nick Piggin wrote:
Nigel Cunningham wrote:
Add paranoia to the page_alloc code to ensure we don't start page reclaim
during suspending.
Nack. Set PF_MEMALLOC if you must.
That would work for the thread doing the suspending. What about other kernel
threads that might run and allocate memory during the cycle because of
$RANDOM_EVENT? We don't want them triggering memory freeing either.
Haven't you suspended the other threads at this point?
What are the consequences of allocating memory?
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